The Duplication Group

History

Cassette Productions was a division of The Duplication Group. Besides duplicating videocassettes, they also duplicated audio cassettes and computer floppy diskettes, and they even replicated CDs and software. In 1998, Cassette Productions was folded into the latter. On December 19 of that year, The Video-Matic Group acquired the company's assets.

Former names

• Cassette Productions (1981-1997)

List of VHS Customers

• Advanced Hunting Equipment, Inc.
• Brentwood Home Video (some tapes)
• The Bridgestone Group
  • Agapeland Home Video
• BWE Video (some tapes)
• Capstone Entertainment
• Disneyland (1996)
• Feature Films for Families
  • Family Films, Ltd.
• Goldstar Video (1992)
  • The Little Red Schoolhouse
• Jones Entertainment Group (some copies of The Story Lady)
• Leucadia Family Films (some tapes)
• The Living Scriptures (some copies of Animated Stories from the Book of Mormon Series 2 Music Video and other tapes)
• The Lyons Group (1988-1993)
• M3D Pro Film, Inc. (some copies of Music in 3 Dimensions)
• Metacom (some tapes)
• Polynesian Cultural Center
• Video Projects, Inc. (some Microsoft Intermediate tapes)
• Warner Reprise Video (some Kidsongs tapes)

List of Customers for Other Media

• Access Software (1982-1998)
• Deseret Book Co.
• FranklinCovey
  • Covey Leadership Center
  • Franklin Quest
• Iomega
• Lexicon

How to Tell

• Some tapes printed at this duplicator have dark print numbers on the left or right side of the cassette (e.g. 118112132, 118512153, 167110061, 184212123 or 23673N082).
• On some tapes, the printings would appear in white (e.g. 26785D013, 469169023 or 5014 5O053).
• Many Goldstar Video and The Lyons Group tapes, alongside other early tapes by this duplicator use oversized reels, while some others use regular reels.
• Most tapes by this duplicator had some extra black screen following the blank space at the tail end, accompanied by a rumbling sound at the end, in the linear track. However, some tapes from this duplicator may not have anything following the static at the tail end at all.

Gallery

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  Cassette Productions' logo originally had the byline "A Division of The Duplication Group."

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  Around 1992, the byline was dropped.

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  An example of what the white printings looked like.

Locations

• Salt Lake City, Utah

Trivia

• Some tapes with its phone number listed were instead duplicated at Osborn Video, Central Video, Matrix Video, Copyrite Tech. or Morning Sun Productions.